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NASW Recognizes October 6th as National Depression Screening Day

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By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C. Senior Practice Associate, Clinical Social Work. It can result from a number of social, emotional, and biological factors. Screenings are completed by licensed clinical social workers and include questions about symptoms, their severity, and duration.

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News Items – December 22, 2022

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Hannah Ware is development associate for NASW-OH: Social workers: advocating for the world around them. Bureau of Labor Statistics , social workers help others prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Social workers provide this support for others through years of training in the classroom and in person.

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News Items – August 18, 2022

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Clergy, social workers fear fallout from Okla. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Almost 2,000 mental health care workers have walked off the job in California. They work for Kaiser Permanente, and they want their employer to hire more people – more psychologists, more social workers. Mayo Clinic Health System.

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News Items – January 20, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Kathy Hochul vowed to beef up the police presence on the city’s subway system, announcing a program sending teams of dozens of social workers to shepherd homeless riders into shelters. Yurilka Hernandez is a member: Yurilka Hernandez, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker with Psychotherapy Today.

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News Items – September 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Steve MacHattie, LCSW and Owner of the Charter Oak Family Center in Manchester , has lived experience – he began experiencing suicidal thoughts and survived his first suicide attempt when he was six or seven years old. “I Social Work faculty member elected to national board. Rocky Hill Patch. I remember being in my bedroom alone.

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News Items – February 10, 2022

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Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW, President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), a Social Work Pioneer! Joyner currently oversees 55 chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) throughout the United States. NBC Connecticut. Mental health is a person-powered field.

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News Items – December 16, 2021

Social Workers Speak

UCHealth, for one, is in the midst of a $150 million push that includes expanding “tele-psych” and “tele-social work,” and embedding psychologists and social workers inside its network of primary care clinics. Many workers, Rippeon said, “might miss having social connections and getting those social needs met.”